£90,000 Damages Awarded For Libelous Tweet
A 131-character tweet just cost Lalit Modi £1.5 million in court costs – and damages to boot. What happened? Another case of not thinking things through before you tweet, it seems.
New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns played cricket for 20 years. He was dismissed from his team in 2008 “for failing to declare an ankle injury he aggravated while completing a charity walk.” Modi, referred to as “one of the most powerful men in cricket,” sent a tweet suggesting the international cricket champion was dismissed from his team for corruption.
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